The major areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Fault-Tolerant Systems - Safety Critical Systems - Secure Systems - High Assurance Systems - Real-Time Systems - Model-based and Experimental Evaluation - Performability - Distributed Algorithms - Middleware - Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems - Clustered Computing - Mobile Computing and Network - Databases and Transaction Processing - Internet Applications - Electronic Commerce - Digital Libraries - Multimedia